Finally! I finished the flip book today! Even though the drawings and animation in the book are very simple, it took a really long time to make it because I did 342 drawings–one for each page of the book.

I’m happy to say that I really like it. I plan to make a video of it as my project on Thursday!

Eek! I am so excited to be making my first ever animation in the form of a flip book. The theme of my little piece is a summer day; on Monday I worked on some simple drawings of a rising sun and a little bee flying around. Yay!

I’ll post a video of the whole flip book once it’s done so for now I’ll leave you with a picture of my bee.

On Sunday morning, I was super excited about making a kale frittata, first because I figured it would taste awesome and second because it would help me use up lots of the languishing ingredients in my fridge, including some fresh but wilting kale and a few types of cheese. I used this recipe from Eggs on Sunday as inspiration, but pretty much made everything up as a went along. It turned out great!

On Saturday night, Jim and I made dinner together and I tried on the strange experiment of barbecuing kale. It didn’t quite work out (instead of tasting awesome, it just tasted weirdly smokey) so I brought the kale inside, put it in a saute pan, added a few cloves of garlic, a little more olive oil, and a few spoonfuls of the chipotle pepper sauce (the stuff that’s in the can with the actual chipotle peppers), and it turned out quite delicious. Definitely a kale rescue.

On Friday night, I watched the movie Alien over at a friend’s house. When I got home, I tried to draw a “cute” alien. I made about eight attempts, but none of them really looked all that cute. I guess it’s hard to make such a horrible, hideous creature endearing.

On Thursday night, I made this fern frond. I first made the stem using black marker and then cut lots of little leaves out from green-toned pictures in a magazine I had laying around the house. Then I glued down all the leaves and voila!